Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He is widely considered to be one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This book brings together fourteen pieces from a large body of uncollected essays. They are united by Levinas's project of revising the phenomenological description of the world in light of our experience of other persons.
Appropriately Levinas pursues this project by discussing the work of others, of philosophers among his contemporaries who bring out and champion a thought that realizes and sustains the proximity of person to person.

Acknowledgements

Bibliographical Information

Translator's Introduction

Preface

1. Martin Buber's Thought and Contemporary Judaism

2. Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel and Philosophy

3. Apropos of Buber: Some Notes

4. Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker

5. Jean Wahl: Neither Having nor Being

6. Vladimir Jankélévitch
7. The Meaning of Meaning
8. On  Intersubjectivity: Notes on Merleau-Ponty

9. In Memory of Alphonse de Waelhens

10. The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Other

11. The Strings and the Wood: On the Jewish Reading of the Bible

12. Everyday Language and Rhetoric Without Eloquence

13. The Transcendence of Words: On Michel Leiris's Biffures

14. Outside the Subject

Notes

Index